Director – Tomu Uchida – 1965 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 183m ***** Voted third in Kinema Junpo magazine’s 1999 list of the greatest Japanese film of all time, Tomu Uchida’s A Fugitive From The Past (1965) is the pinnacle of a directorial career that also includes Bloody Spear At Mount Fuji (1955) and […]
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A Fugitive From The Past
(Kiga Kaikyo,
飢餓海峡)
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- Post date December 20 2022
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飢餓海峡) - Sticky post
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